Uniformology

The Royal Berkshire Yeomanry

Ranked No. 26 in Yeomanry Order of preference
A Yeomanry troop was raised in Abington in 1794 followed by further troops in 1800 and 1804. Known as 1st Regt of Berkshire Cavalry in 1804. Eastern Berkshire Yeomanry in 1820. All troops disbanded in 1827. In 1831 Regiment was re-raised, growing to three troops only one of which, the Hungerford troop survived by 1838. By 1853 Title became Royal Berkshire Yeomanry.
Formed 39th coy of 10th Bn and 58th coy of the 15th Bn Imperial Yeomanry from 1900 to 1902

Uniform
The yeomanry units in Berkshire generally were dressed conventionally in blue from the beginning. When re-raised in 1831 they adopted scarlet coats (possibly because William IV had ordered all British cavalry into scarlet during his reign). A bell topped shako was worn until 1852 when a black japanned helmet with black plume was adopted. In 1858 scarlet tunics were taken into wear much in the style of the contemporary heavy cavalry tunic. Blue overalls were worn with a broad scarlet stripes. At the same time a white plume replaced the black one on the helmet. By 1880 a white metal 1874 Albert pattern helmet was adopted which had overtones of the old 1847 version with the leaf patterned socket plume holder and a strip of brass on the helmet seam both back and front. The tunic remained the same and although the cuffs retained the "V" shaped lace with button, the collar had a wide strip of white lace on the top and front of the collar. The rear skirts were decorated with scalloped flaps edged blue. Unlike the regular heavy cavalry, there were only two points to the scallops each with a button and two buttons at the waist.
Scarlet stable jackets were worn in undress and the pattern seems to have remained unchanged since the 1850s. The men's were plain with blue collar and pointed cuffs while sergeants and above had silver lace on collar and cuffs. Sergeants and above had a crown above their chevrons. The white shoulder cords were replaced by blue shoulder straps in 1898. Pillbox caps were blue with scarlet band and crown lace for other ranks all in silver for SNCOs.
In 1900 they went to war in khaki and the scarlet uniforms were put into store and in 1903 they were wearing khaki with scarlet collars and cuff piping with slouch hats. By 1908 they had adopted blue staff pattern caps with scarlet bands and blue serge frocks with scarlet collars and pointed cuffs and shoulder chains.

Berkshire Yeomanry Mounted Band
The Hungerford troop had a band as early as 1842 and had received kettledrums in 1853.
From about 1879 the band had adopted a distinctive uniform based somewhat on that of the Household Cavalry. The tunic was edged all round with silver lace and there was half-inch silver lace on the top, and bottom of the collar and on the top and rear edge of the gauntlet cuffs. On the collar and cuff lace there were small 'eyes' traced below. the rear skirts had two single straight lines of lace from the buttons. The plaited shoulder cords were also silver.
The helmet was the same as the rest of the regiment except that it had a white over red plume.
The band stable jacket had silver edging to the front and lower edges and on the collar and cuffs. There were shoulder cords instead of straps. The pillbox cap had a silver edging to the crown and top of the red band.

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The British Household cavalry regiments possess the most arcane set of uniform regulations of any active military unit in the world. Even trying to explain them gives you a headache. However, I have done my best to do so in the current posting on the subject. The interesting thing is that they haven't changed much since my study which takes place in the late Victorian era. Check it out here:
http://www.uniformology.com/HHC-07.html

In march of 2015 the new rank of Army Sergeant-Major was created in the British Army. It mirrored the same rank adopted by the US Army some sixty years earlier. It was created to bring critical issues concerning other ranks to a higher level. It is the highest warrant rank in the British Army.
The first holder of the rank was Warrant Officer First Class Glenn Haughton, OBE. In 2018, WO1 Haughton was appointed to the new post of SEAC - Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of Staffs Committee. The term "Enlisted" is an American term and not used in the British Army and the word has been dropped from the description although SEAC acronym remains. The current holder is WO1 Gavin Paton, A Rifleman and his badge reflects that. The badge shown here is worn on the upper right arm in Full Dress and Mess Dress.

See all the badges here http://www.uniformology.com/BADGE04A.html